Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-07-30

Mrs. Fosdick, the wife of a. N. Fos-
dick left her home at Montivideo, Wednes-
day afternoon, and was seen on the streets
of Montivideo at dusk that evening. Search
for her had been made and no trace of her
whereabouts found on the 22nd. Mrs Fosdick
has recently been discharged from the in
sane asylum at st. Peter, and it is sup
posed that she has again become insane.
Milwaukee special: John Burnham,
an old and widely known citizen, was
on boat, badly injured. While in bed in
Grand Rapids hotel he dreamt that he was
on board q steamer which had taken fire.
He jumped from his bed and out of the
window. He fell on a projecting roof which
broke his fall, but he was badly injured.
At Mankato, Mimi, the police ran in
a gang of tramps who have been around the
| city since the encampment. They found a
bunch of skeleton keys on the person Of one
OF them, and the superstition is that they
have been concerned i'll the numerous
burglaries that have been committed there
| during the past two weeks.
Robert j. Mcguire, a well known
newspaper man, died in the st. Louis Hos
pital Duluth, Mimi, July 81, from the shock
OF the amputation OF his leg at the hip joint
on account of an abcess. He had been In
the hospital two months. He came to Duluth
in 1880 and was very popular. He was a
native OF New York city, and acquired a
literary reputation there by contributing to
| magazines before coming West.
Thursday afternoon as Henry
Luitens, farmer living six miles from
Hutchinson. Mimi, was at work in the har-
Luitens, in his attempt to stop the horses,
was thrown in front of the self binder and
the machine passed over his body, breaking a
number of his ribs and otherwise seriously
injuring him.
Dubuque, Ia, despatch Goth: A
party of several persons from Hazel Green,
Wis, arrived to-day to camp out few
weeks on the banks OF the Mississippi river
| a few miles south of Galena, at point
known as the junction. This afternoon
Walter Hobbie, Clint Thomas and John
H. Thomas, members of the party, went in
bathing In dangerous hole known as the
| whirlpool, and were drowned. The bodies
were not recovered up to late hour.
At Milwaukee, Wis, Monday even
ing William Schmidt, better known as ssBil.
ly Smith, !" in former years travelling sales
man for Marshall, Field & Co., committed
suicide by shooting himself in the head. Fol-
the last two years he has been in the insane
asylum. Since his release he lived from the
earnings OF his mother, who keeps mil.
linery store.
At Saltwater, Mimi, on the 21st,
G. F. Holmberg, a young Swede was caught
by boring machine at the Schulenberg,
Boeckeler & Co.'S saw mill and his righfrt
arm was nearly severed just above the wrist
He also sustained severe bruises on the
| right side of his body, and his clothing was
stripped from his body.
A street car driver was shot dead at
11:3O p. NJ, Tuesday at the Lake street
turntable, Minneapolis, as he was about tc
turn in his car for the night. His cash box
supposed to contain 5000 was stolen. The
murdered man was struck by two shots and
was found dead Oh the platform of his car
The Harris brothers, for horse stealing
and W. 81. Lyons for deadly assault broke
| Jail at Black River Falls, Wis, on the 21st
by forcing off the sheet iron ceiling of thei1
room and made their escape through man
hole in the roof, and by means of blankets
tied together and reaching to the ground.
II. a. Jewett and Seymour Hollister
OF Oshkosh, Wis, have contracted for &
tract Of land near Sault Ste. Marie contain.
| ing $4,000, 0O0feet of pine, for which they will
| pay $l5O,OOO. The money is to be furnished
by Senator Sawyer. The pine is to be
sawed and shipped to Canadian points,
It is reported that William Mcintosh
of Huron, OAK, who has been master me-
| chanic of that division of the Northwestern
for nearly seven years, has been appointed
master mechanic OF all the Northwestern
lines west of Winona to the Missouri, with
headquarters at Winona, MINI.
The municipal officials of St. Paul
and Minneapolis, together with the Cham
Der Of Commerce and Board Of Trade OF
those cities are formulating an invitation
to President and Mrs. Cleveland to visit
them when they come westward next
October.
The burned St. Anthony elevator,
at Minneapolis, is to be rebuilt at once
! with an increase of capacity to 100000
bushels. Itturns out that the loss on wheat
| is not entire; a bid of 100000 has been
made Tor the wheat as it lies, and refused.
Webster, OAK, special: The jury in
in the case Of William M. Evans, ex-treas
urer OF Grant county, returned a verdict Of
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minutes: The verdict meets the approba.
tlon OF the entire community.
At noon on the 25th, II. G. Wood
ward, age %, unmarried, painter at work
upon the Exposition building, MINNEAPOLIS.
BY the giving way OF the scaHolding fell the
distance OF "a feet, striking upon his head
and being instantly killed.
At Clinton Iowa, Wallace Phillips.
the youth who was shot in the head at SELF.
Bros, circus. died Monday. Mrs Lamber.
ton, another victim, is getting better, George
harrington, the third person shot, is still ia
critical condition. 54
At Duluth, Monday evening, Mile.
Rhea, at the close Of the performance ten
dered a reception to the Duluth Press club.
and presented that organizat ton with a fine
solid silver water pitcher appropriately en-
graved =.
The general crop reports for the
week show that harvesting is well in hand
and that, with local exceptions, the crops in
dakota and Minnesota will round up q good
average Yield OF wheat, oats and corn.
The railroad bridge at Mendoza,
Mimi, OF the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneap-
oils and Omaha line, took fire Tuesday
AFTERNOON and was damaged so that no
trains could pass for two days.
A syndicate composed Of Senators
Farwen, Cameron, Plumb, Vest, Allison, ex-
Gov. Hauser and Helena men, have pur-
tent Of 664 600